The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 234
When the apple was quite finished she stained her face and dressed herself up as a peasant, and so she went over the seven hills to the seven Dwarfs’.
Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: finish, stain, dress up, go · To what, where: apple, face, SNOWDROP, seven Dwarfs, seven hills
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 finished | advmod |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stained | advcl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stained | nsubj |
| 8 | stained | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stained | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dressed | cc |
| 12 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stained | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 dressed | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dressed | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 peasant | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 peasant | det |
| 17 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dressed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stained | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 hills | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hills | det |
| 25 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hills | nummod |
| 26 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Dwarfs | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Dwarfs | det |
| 29 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Dwarfs | nummod |
| 30 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 went | obl |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the apple | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stain | past | SNOWDROP | SNOWDROP's face | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dress up | past | SNOWDROP not said here | SNOWDROP | as a peasant | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 4 | go | past | SNOWDROP | the seven Dwarfs | the seven hills | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location to dwarf=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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